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Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Post by quink »

Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, having been destroyed since. There’s other boreholes too though.

Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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quink wrote: post #3

Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, having been destroyed since. There’s other boreholes too though.

The Kola boreholes are 22 centimeters (9 inches) in diameter, that building is not a bridge in any way, shape, or form.

Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Post by quink »

quickthrowman wrote: post #4
quink wrote: post #3

Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, having been destroyed since. There’s other boreholes too though.

The Kola boreholes are 22 centimeters (9 inches) in diameter, that building is not a bridge in any way, shape, or form.

One of these days I’ll get a model railroad bridge and put it over a borehole. But that day shan’t be today because arguing technicalities on HN seems easier :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges vs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges

Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Post by SequoiaHope »

I think I’m going to visit China soon, to the Pearl River Delta. I want to meet manufacturers and advance a product I am working on, and having lived in the US my entire life, I desperately need to see what it’s like when a country is really trying to build a future.

Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Post by quickthrowman »

quink wrote: post #5
quickthrowman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Kola boreholes are 22 centimeters (9 inches) in diameter, that building is not a bridge in any way, shape, or form.

One of these days I’ll get a model railroad bridge and put it over a borehole. But that day shan’t be today because arguing technicalities on HN seems easier :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges vs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges

If you set up a model train bridge over the Kola borehole, I’ll concede and admit it’s a bridge ;)

I learned something by writing my response, I didn’t know how large the Kola boreholes were and now I do!

Also, thanks for clarifying the distinction between highest and tallest, the span on the Chinese bridge is 2000’ above the ground at certain points but the towers themselves are only 860 feet tall, other bridges have taller towers/pillars but the deck height isn’t as high as this Chinese one.

Re: Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

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Post by jmyeet »

I knew it was going to be China.

China's infrastructure building is beyond impressive. I always come back to this map of China's high speed rail built in 16 years (2008-2024) [1].

China is actually run by a meritocratic bureaucracy rather than the dumbest of people who do nothing more than sell pardons, run crypto scams, transfer government funds to the wealthiest of people, pander to religious hallucinations and sell out their constituents for board seats and jobs after their political career from the very billionaires that were buying them in office. And no, it's not just one party that does this although the current administration is particularly egregious.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/highspeedrail/comments/1drmc2v/grow...

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